week one: trial

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WEEK ONE: TRIAL

Morning dawns bright and early the day after the announcement of the dead, and as the sun tracks its way across the sky, the voice's message is likely not far from anyone's mind. The fire in the ruins still burns, though as the minutes tick by into hours, the flames slowly begin to subside.

Finally, the sun reaches its highest point just as the flames in the ruins sputter out. A low, deep thrumming sound echoes throughout the entire island, which turns into ringing, a drawn-out signal that grows louder and louder until it seems as though all other sounds on the island fall to a hush.

It is then that the lighthouse beacon becomes illuminated, drawing them all to the southern beach. That same voice as before rings, audible throughout the entire island.

"There are those of you who hope to escape from this with clean hands... well, I suggest you discard those hopes. You are all participants in this game, and you will all be complicit in the sacrifices that take place here, or else you will not have earned your passage home.

You have until the sun vanishes beneath the horizon. Choose your next sacrifice, and choose who will dispatch them. Speak the names of your choices into the conch. Failure to cooperate will result in a fate worse than death.

...perhaps you should investigate the deaths. Would it ease your conscience to condemn someone to death whose hands are already stained with the blood of a sacrifice? The bodies are out there, and the evidence as well... but you will have to find it yourselves.

Tick-tock, tick-tock! Your time starts... now."

Once the entire group has gathered, the lighthouse's beacon flickers out.

It is time to choose the next sacrifice... and hopefully, to catch a killer.

Good luck.

OOC NOTES

Welcome to your first trial, everyone! This trial will take place from 9am PST/12pm EST/4am NZST, and will last until 6pm PST/9pm EST/1pm NZST.

There will be a one-hour trial break from 1pm PST/4pm EST/8am NZST to 2pm PST/5pm EST/9am NZST. We recommend that you use this time to get something to eat if you haven't yet already, play some Animal Crossing, or even just take a quick nap. During this time, no mod tags will go out; we also ask that players refrain from starting any intensive threads such as interrogations, strip searches, hair or injury comparisons, etc. While we're not going to say you're not allowed to tag during this time, we also don't want anyone to miss out on anything important during an official break.

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If you have any questions, please go ahead and ask! Your mods and fellow players are always here to help. And most of all... have fun!

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Comments

[baori]

[ hmm.

that's an idea but— ]

Would you think anything would have survived that fire?

[paradoxity]

No, not really. [Easily said, and she looks a bit, hm, not thrilled by the notion of dying in a fire. Haha.] That's if anything was there at all. We don't know if it was the scene of a crime or a distraction. And...there might be clues left behind anyway if they could withstand the heat. Or even outside of the ruins themselves.

[fabrefactions]

At the very least, it is somewhere we should investigate. Body, or no body, yes?

[lacking]

... I agree. If we write it off and miss something important, this isn't going to go well.

[fabrefactions]

And, as much as I am uncomfortable acknowledging the probability a number of us committed murder on command... a fire would be a good place to attempt to dispose of evidence, no?

[lacking]

After I heard the voice yesterday, that's... what I assumed. If the fire was lit on purpose, someone might have used it to try and cover up what happened.

[paradoxity]

Yes. Even if it isn't related to one of the victims, it could be a sign we're not alone after all.

[fabrefactions]

Perhaps. People have been experiencing strange phenomenons here, haven't they?

[paradoxity]

Our arrival here is a strange phenomenon itself. [She tilts her head.] Usually when something like this happens, the person responsible isn't too far away. We just have to look closer.

[overruns]

For the lighthouse to continue operating, and for a voice to speak to us all so frequently, I cannot believe we are alone here. Surely someone must be nearby with a hand in all this, someone who brought us here.

[ Though even that doesn't really explain everything... ]

[machinetranslation]

You are correct, sir, that such island-wide broadcasts would need to originate from somewhere, and it is the lighthouse which seems to have compelled everyone to gather here.

[He motions towards the currently dormant lighthouse]

[muragas]

In that case, we should also check out the lighthouse, right? Since that's where...

[ poor fingerguns... ]

[lacking]

Should we try places they frequented, too...? I think that guy, um— Wen Ning-san, was it? I remember seeing him inside the cavern earlier this week.

[fabrefactions]

That's... two locations we can start with. [ Could be worse. ] Perhaps we will stumble across something related to other locations as we investigate.

[snyaiper]

There's something strange about that lighthouse, it aught to be worth investigating regardless.

[baori]

[ a distraction. ]

Then are you volunteering yourself to go to the ruins?

[ there are nicer ways to invite yourself to the ruins if she is going, giyuu... ]

[paradoxity]

...hm. I suppose so, yes. [May as well be useful.] Who else should come with us?

[If she's going, she's dragging him with her.]

[baori]

[ he'll nod and suddenly there will be two adults. thank the good lord. ]

Ryuji has agreed to come along with me for the investigation.

[nautycal]

Maybe not, but it's still worth a shot to look, right?

[fishingforcompliments]

It is as you say... we will not know unless we try.

[nautycal]

Yeah, exactly! [A pause.] You doin' okay?

[fishingforcompliments]

I am all right...

[she doesn't look happy, though]

Are you?

[baori]

Were you thinking of going to the ruins?

[nautycal]

[He shrugs one shoulder kinda.]

I mean, I can. I'm willin'. Why, you wanna go? Let's go, dude.

[baori]

I was there the night of the fire, so I'm curious of what happened.

[ time to chaperone. ]